Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-02-02
RAILROAD BOND PETITION.
To THE HONORABLE BOARD OF COUNTY Coz
MIssIoSERs OF THE COUNTY or BARBER, I
THE STATE OF KANSAS.

To THE HONORABLE BOARD OF COUNTY Con-
MIssIoSERs OF THE COUNTY or BARBER, IN
THE STATE OF KANSAS.
The undersigned being more than two-ffths
OF the resident taxpayers, OF Mingona town
ship, OF the county OF barber, in the state of
Kansas, respectfully pray your honorable
body to submit TO the qualified electors of
said township, a proposition to subscribe
Twenty-Five thousand dollars. to the capital
stock. of the kansas & Panhandle Railroad
Company, a corporation, created and existing
under and by vlrtne of the laws of the state
OF Kansas, which proposes to construct a
line OF railroad into and through said town
ship. And that In payment for said subscrip-
ton of said stock, bonds of said township
shall be issued in sums OF one-thousand dol
lars each, payable In thirty years from date
OF issue, with interest payable semi-annually.
al the rate OF six per cent. per annum, on tho
first day OF January and on the first day of
July, OF each aud every year. until said prin-
have attached thereunto semi-annual inter
est coupons, and the said bonds doth princi-
/ pal and INTEREST," shall be payable ut the fiscal
agency OF the state OF Kansas. in the city of
New YORK, in the state of New York
And the condition on which said subscrip-
ton TO the capital stock shall be made. are
stru=t and operate and mafntain said rail
road OF standard gauge. from
some point on the north or east side OF
said township and running thence
through said township and have the same in
operation on OF before the 3lst day of Decem-
Der. A. ID. 1851, and erect and maintain n de-
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ship as follows. to-wtt:-Within one-Quarter
tkl of a milo OF tho intersection OF Franklin
Avenue and Main street. ian the town OF Min
gona-
And VIC further pray that you order a spc-
cial election. 10 be held in said township in
pursuance OF chapter l07 OF the laws of 1875,
aud the acts OF the legislature OF the state OF
Kansas amendatory thereof. TO vote upon
the question of subscribing for said stock as
aforesaid. And the form of the ballots TO be
used at such election and for such proposition.
be-" For subscription to stock of the Kansas 4
Panhandle Railroad Company" and those
against such proposition, 10 be Against
subscription to stock OF the Kansas 4 Pam
handle Railroad company.
Am WHEREAS said Board OF County Com
missioners have examined said petition, and
II having been shown 20 tho satisfaction OF
sal 4 board that eaid petition has been signed by
more than two-fifths of the resident taxpay-
crs. in said township, and IS IN the form pre-
scrilcd 10y law and Is In ali respects regular
and legal and said board so finds and declares.
Now THEKEPUeE. pursuant 10 the prayer
OF said petition and the statutes IN such case
made aud provided IL IL hereby ordered by
the Board OF County Commissio uere. OF said
county. that special election be held
at the usual voting places In said township on
TUESDAY, THE 2sud DAY OF FEBRUARY,
A ID. 1877.
at which sad election the proposition set
forth I'm the hcrinbeforc recited petition
wbich petition. with the signatures thereto
omitted. l. herey made part Of this order